Game in the Brain

the supplier project team made some critical mistake and we have sufficient documentation to prove it as well as a simple paper trail of how the mistake was made.

I’m in the odd position where – I’m not being antagonistic I want them to succeed but I know they need to pretend everything is alright. Its a supplier which our company invested in, but its not performing well. Our company subsidizes a lot of its costs, since we own part of it, but it needs to get “Upgraded” professionally by having the systems and abilities we need for it to succeed and to be able to resell our shared product.

I really want to go into detail of what went wrong. But I need to study and need to do all these other things. If I were to summarize the problem into a Problem Statement – how do I make an External Provider do things in a manner that is more transparent.

It wants to Charge 120k for staffing augmentation of 1 level-1 manpower. 120k for 20k manpower. You can imagine the reaction of management to those prices. It completely defeats the reason of going LOW CODE.

We are in a position that we are both in a Mess. A mess because previous heads had their own ideas where it should go, but did not Create a Criteria for Failure or Success and we continue on sunk cost. I have to figure out a solution that gets us out of this massive Gravity well of sunk cost, with one that will move us towards sustainability. 

Do this without no authority, and mostly with Technical Rolls and diplomacy rolls.